Above The Sky-Chapter 1882 - 387: Father, It Is Time for Me to Kill You!

The third time was the same, as was the fourth, the fifth, and indeed every subsequent time.

At first, I was able to use my own power, my status, and my father’s tacit approval to resolve these issues... but soon, I discovered that these matters were endless, that the entire world was like this, filled with hardship, pain, and suffering.

I could solve it once, but I couldn’t solve it every time. The Empire is not my toy. Power does not belong to me, the Prince, but to my father; I have no way to eradicate these issues.

I truly cannot bear to see people suffer. I do not genuinely sympathize or pity those ordinary folks... I don’t even know them.

To be honest. A despicable remark.

It’s just because I’ve lived too happily, so when I see something unpleasant, I feel uncomfortable and want to quickly make those unpleasant things disappear, so that I can be happy again.

It’s like seeing a stain on a supposedly pure white wall and wanting to paint over it as soon as possible.

——Don’t let these things stain my eyes!

I roared in my heart, and this feeling was like walking into the kitchen and seeing a pitiable little lamb blink at me. I’ve eaten too many lambs, but seeing this one with my own eyes, I couldn’t bear to eat it, so I let the chef release it.

The chef released it. The next day, I didn’t go to the kitchen.

I ate the second little lamb.

I just don’t want to see such things happening right before me; as long as it’s not happening in front of me, I can forget about these matters and live happily.

But I am the Sunbird.

Wherever the light reaches, how could I not see?

There was even once, while chatting with peers from other Nobles, that I spoke my mind to them.

I cannot bear to see people suffer.

Saying this indeed makes one sound a bit pretentious, surely there would be peers mocking behind my back, thinking it’s a bit too much for a Prince of the Empire to say he ’cannot bear to see people suffer’, if I truly cannot, then why not let a little slip from my fingernails to those suffering poor?

We are all Nobles, I am still a Prince, why pretend to be a big shot?

I did ask my father about this question, and my father asked me if I was feeling a bit powerless.

I said yes, I feel that my strength is insufficient, power is also insufficient, as if I cannot grasp anything, all ideas slip through like water between my fingers, intangible.

My father told me to remember this feeling of powerlessness, and then strive to become stronger. As for those sufferings, take them as nourishment for my desire to become stronger, and when I truly become a strong person, then consider whether to personally help those ordinary people.

I felt puzzled, I don’t understand why encountering such things, the first thing to do is to become stronger—aren’t we the royal family? We manage the whole Empire, isn’t it precisely to solve the various problems within the Empire?

Those gangs, those corrupt officials, those decayed and even malicious rebellious Nobles... each is an enemy of our rule and would affect our ruling authority! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

My father told me, that’s utterly wrong. The Empire is our tool for ruling; we are not the nanny of the subjects. Or rather, we have already provided the greatest and most crucial protection for the subjects, which is our military protection.

My father told me, even though we are called the royal family, the Emperor and Prince, in actuality, our ’imperial power’ does not come from officials, does not come from the military, does not come from any ministers or supporters, nor from the people.

It comes from the Bloodline, from the light that flows in our bodies.

Rather than a royal family, we are gods walking in the Human Realm, an unassailable superior being not to be overthrown or defeated by rebellion.

The authority of the Empire lies only in its strength, and the existence of the Empire itself is a constraint on him, rather than him using the Empire to manage ordinary people.

He is the one bound by the Empire.

I asked my father, is this why we disregard people’s suffering? Because we cannot be overthrown, we can justifiably exploit and let them be tormented by hardship?

My father told me, all the wealth of our Setal Imperial Family was obtained purely by the hands of the royal family. The citizens, whether they are one billion, ten billion, or a hundred billion, cannot go to the Moon to collect nuclear fuel, cannot go to Mercury Star to collect high-purity natural Origin Quality crystals, cannot go to the asteroid belt to obtain the rarest mineral raw materials.

My father told me, the taxes our Setal Imperial Family collects were completely used to maintain the Empire itself, already since three generations before my grandfather, the royal family takes not a penny, even the operation of the Imperial Capital, the fuel, the energy, and all the maintenance necessities are personally collected by him as the Emperor.

My father told me, if I truly cannot bear to see people suffer, why not ask those ignorant people why they exploit and oppress each other—the royal family no longer even collects agricultural taxes, at least not in the Quinal Great Plains of the Imperial Capital, if other Nobles collect, that is their power, and the exploitation by gangs is also an organization they created themselves.

If I truly want to understand, I must go witness.

So, I went to witness.

Decades passed, and I gradually understood the rules of the world’s operation and understood the source of all suffering.

I began to realize that even if this world has no Sublimators, no gods walking in the Human Realm, no Sunbird, no Spirit Wisdom Institute and Ministry of Truth, no Emperor or Nobles, people would still oppress and exploit each other.